SAN DIEGO -- Two anti-Saddam Hussein exiles from Kurdish territory in northern Iraq expressed concern Wednesday over the way the war in their homeland is progressing.

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"For me, I thought things would be much easier than this," said Alan Zangana of the Kurdish Human Rights Watch. "Now things are getting more complicated."

Zangana said the best way to win is to go right after the Iraqi president.

"Sometimes it takes only one bullet to win a war," Zangana said. "We have to hit the leadership and the thugs."

Michael Bazzi, pastor of St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Church in Rancho San Diego, said it was difficult to be here and not know anything about what was happening in Iraq.

Many exiles have been able to speak to family and friends back in Iraq, but Bazzi said they are now unable to connect by telephone.

"We feel very sad about" some of the ruses the Iraqi troops reportedly are using to their advantage, Bazzi said. "We know very well who is this regime. They use any means. It doesn't matter if it's against their own people."

While Zangana usually is concerned with the Kurdish area in the north of Iraq, he's been monitoring events in the south, too.

Zangana said he heard that armed Republican Guard soldiers were placed in private homes in the southern city of Basra to prevent participation in the sort of uprising that occurred there Tuesday.

The best news, he said, was the bombing of Iraqi television facilities.

Hussein "uses the media powerfully," Zangana said, and has been "lying to Iraqis and other Arabs for years."

His biggest fear in northern Iraq remains the possibility of Turkey sending troops into the Kurdish area, which the Kurds would oppose militarily, pitting two U.S. allies against each other.